selected icon not showing clearly

i noticed that when i select an icon in the panel , the icon becomes hard to see or disappears . it looks like the blue background is on top of the icon . maybe the icon should be above the blue highlight so it stays visible?

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hi welcome.

more information is needed:
system info (settings > system info > copy n paste )
how that “icon” got there ( is that the task manager, a widget, or did you just drag it there)
what you did exactly to highlight it like that (what exact steps did you take)

HI

this is related to the “virtual desktops”

in the pager configs , i enabled “show application icons on window outlines”
and when i open an app , its icon appears on the virtual desktop , but the blue highlight that shows the selected desktop is on top of the icon , which makes the icon hard to see or even disappear .

i think the icon should be above the blue highlight, or at least remain visible clearly .

let me know if you need a screenshot .

THANK YOU

you are talking about this setting…

and you would like the icons to be in the foreground of the pager preview for each window shown as sort of a mini overview effect.

is that right?

i don’t know there is any setting for this, tho you may be able edit the .qml file and get the icons to show on top or maybe just change the opacity of the window preview.

i got as far as:

/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pager/contents/ui/main.qml

around line 214 seems to be where the action is

there is height and width shown but not depth or z-order, so the trail ends for me there.

putting in a feature request “wishlist” report at bug.kde.org might someday bear fruit.

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